Based on knowledge of the molecular structure of myelin, the Nottingham physicists devised a new model in which the nerve fibers are represented as long thin hollow tubes with special (anisotropic) magnetic properties.

Take the new Collaborative MS Research Center being launched by Dennis Bourdette, MD (Oregon Health Sciences University), which pursues a novel direction in MS research--the role of mitochondria mitochondria in nerve fiber damage.

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